From the Diet of Worms to the Augsburg Confession - James Aitken Wylie

words "This is my body."
It is worthy of notice that the argument since so
often employed in confutation of the doctrine of
Christ's corporeal presence in the Lord's Supper,
namely, that a body cannot be in two places at one
and the same time, was employed by our Lord
himself at Capernaum. When he found that his
hearers understood him to say that they must "eat
his flesh and drink his blood," after a corporeal
manner, he at once restricted them to the spiritual
sense, by telling them that his body was to ascend
to heaven.
"What" (John 6:62, 63) "and if ye shall see the
Son of Man ascend up where he was before? It is
the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth
nothing; the words that I speak unto you, they are
spirit, and they are life."
The hour to adjourn had now arrived, and the
disputants retired with the prince to dinner. At table
there came an hour's familiar and friendly talk with
their host and with one another. In the afternoon
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